Drop the angled brackets. Write (Ascii)Docs with pleasure!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<book lang="en">
    <bookinfo>
        <title>Document Title</title>
        <date>2012-12-01</date>
        <author>
            <firstname>John</firstname>
            <surname>Doe</surname>
            <email>john.doe@example.com</email>
        </author>
        <authorinitials>JD</authorinitials>
        <revhistory>
            <revision>
                <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
                <date>2012-12-01</date>
                <authorinitials>JD</authorinitials>
            </revision>
        </revhistory>
    </bookinfo>
    <preface>
        ...

        ...
        <simpara>
            This is the optional preamble (an untitled section body).
            Useful for writing simple sectionless documents consisting
            only of a preamble.
        </simpara>
        <note>
            <simpara>
                The abstract, preface, appendix, bibliography, glossary
                and index section titles are significant
                (<emphasis>specialsections</emphasis>).
            </simpara>
        </note>
    </preface>
    <chapter id="_first_section">
        <title>First section</title>
        <simpara>
            Document sections start at level 1 and can nest up to
            four levels deep.
        </simpara>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <simpara>Item 1</simpara>
                ...

                ...
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <simpara>Item 2</simpara>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
    </chapter>
</book>

# Document Title

This is the optional preamble (an untitled section body). Useful for
writing simple sectionless documents consisting only of a preamble.

> **Note**
>
> The abstract, preface, appendix, bibliography, glossary and index
> section titles are significant (*specialsections*).

## First section

Document sections start at level 1 and can nest up to four levels deep.

* Item 1
* Item 2

Title (Level 0)
===============

Level 1
-------

Level 2
~~~~~~~

Level 3
^^^^^^^

Level 4
+++++++

= Title (Level 0) =

== Level 1 ==

=== Level 2 ===

==== Level 3 ====

===== Level 4 =====

= Title (Level 0)

== Level 1

=== Level 2

==== Level 3

===== Level 4

This paragraph contains 'emphasized', *strong*, `monospaced` text.

This paragraph has fancy `single-quoted' and ``double-quoted'' text.

To get [underline]#underlined# text, you can use a inline role (i.e., class) named underline.

x*x can be written as x^2 and you swim in H~2~O.

We break at the end of this line +
to keep the text from overflowing.

.Look at me!
This paragraph has it's own title. footnote:[A title can help a paragraph stand out.]

[macros]
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[filename-inlinemacro]
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<filename{target@.*/$: class="directory"}>{target}</filename>
endif::basebackend-docbook[]
ifdef::basebackend-html[]
<tt>{target}</tt>
endif::basebackend-html[]

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